Guatemalan Plaintiffs reach fair and reasonable settlement in Canadian mining lawsuits
TORONTO, ON, Oct. 7, 2024: Lawyers for the Plaintiffs are pleased to announce that after more than a decade of litigation, the Mayan Q’eqchi’ Plaintiffs have successfully reached a fair and reasonable settlement with Hudbay Minerals Inc. which resolves litigation regarding allegations of human rights abuse at the Fenix mine in Guatemala.
LSO Law Suit
Read key court documents in Bencher Klippenstein’s lawsuit about the Law Society’s refusal to provide him with internal information of his bencher duties.
G20 Summit Class Action
In June of 2010, Toronto police conducted the largest mass arrests in Canadian history during global G20 summit meetings in Toronto.
Klippensteins and Eric Gillespie were co-counsel in a hard-fought eleven-year class action lawsuit defending the rights and liberties of all Canadians, which ended with a settlement that included a public police acknowledgement, police policy reform, and a substantial compensation to 1100 arrestees.
Ipperwash Litigation & Inquiry
In 1995, First Nation activist Dudley George was shot and killed by police in Ipperwash Provincial Park at a protest seeking to protect native burial grounds and Treaty lands.
Helping a new women’s shelter
When a non-profit womens’ organization secured funding for a much needed and well-designed shelter for abused and threatened women and their children, the contractor built a lovely facility — and then sued for millions of additional construction fees.
First Nations war veterans
Canadian veterans returning from World War II were offered generous government assistance programmes — except for First Nations veterans, who were simply sent back to their reserves, with a fraction of the farming, housing and educational opportunities that were made available to the non-Natives at whose side they had fought.
First Nation land claim for hydro dam flooding
In the early frontier years of Ontario’s history, a power company built an illegal dam across a major northern Ontario river, flooding parts of the ancestral lands of the Mattagami First Nation, guaranteed to them by Treaty just a few years before.
Fighting for the Rights of Cooperative Members: Matthew Co-op
Matthew Co-op is a housing co-operative in the County of Simcoe, Ontario, which is home to over 100 predominantly low-income Ontarians.
Pollution Probe’s anti-greenhouse gas hearings
Klippensteins has represented Pollution Probe at more than a dozen majorregulatory hearings at the Ontario Energy Board and over the years has usedeconomic and environmental expert evidence and representations to successfullypush for aggressive anti-greenhouse gas measures in Ontario’s natural gas sector
Preserving a park at municipal council
public spirited environmental activist was elected to the Municipal Council of a major Ontario city on a platform of saving important park lands from imminent development
Sandy Bell’s Natural garden
A Toronto musician decided that she wanted her front yard to become once again a small stretch of original Ontario meadow, with native grasses and flowers serving as a home for butterflies, bees and birds, and as an environmental educational experience for her young son and for passersby.
The Mushkegowuk Cree fight Workfare
When the provincial government dramatically cut back provincial social assistance,First Nations people across the province were especially hard-hit. TheMushkegowuk Council of First Nations on the James Bay coast asked us to challengethe province’s imposition of the changes on First Nations.
Clerk beats bank in Federal Court of Appeal
Muruganandaraja Muthiah worked for a bank for many years. Despite his commitment and solid work record, he was fired without cause and without warning by the bank. We acted for Mr. Muthiah to challenge the firing.
Equal Policing for First Nations Communities
In early 2006, despite years of clear warnings of unsafe conditions and chronic underfunding by the federal government, a fire destroyed the dilapidated and unsafe police station in Kaschechewan First Nation in northern Ontario.